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The ride

When I was young, grocery stores often provided a mechanical cartoonish animal, sometimes a horse or…
Reading notes: The Fifth Risk

What is most remarkable about Michael Lewis’s The Fifth Risk is not that he makes us…
The Appreciative Lens

I believe I mentioned that I tend to be a glass is half full type person,…
Reading Notes

Announcing in this quasi public space my reading goals and delays seems to have aided me…
One way to turn off instant replay.

My first year of teaching middle school was tough. I’m pretty sure I made every mistake…
Speculative Fiction Blues

So I have been working this month on my science fiction/young adult series, and the more…
So many books, so little time

I just peeked at my options for e-books at the local library, and I saw, again,…
Fresh tracks

It snowed last night, school is cancelled, and the house is quiet while my family sleeps…
Halfway Point

15 days: 15 blog posts and 21k+ words on the novel So we are halfway through…
Reading notes: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

So I am scratching out moments, minutes really, for reading, and I am returning to finish…